Copley Square Protest, Boston
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asakiyumeI'm making a T-shirt. On the front it will say, "I was a stranger" and on the back it will say "And you welcomed me." I haven't finished it yet, however, so I just carried a sign that said "Welcome Refugees."
I took a bunch of pictures, but this is my favorite:
This woman's message, at Alewife Station (on the way into Boston), was very moving:
"I am: Arab Irani American"
This looked like the rugs you can see in the prayer room of a mosque. They're set out by a statue of Phillips Brooks, an Episcopal clergyman.
"All Muslims are terrorized by this presidency"
A game of hat-steal going on
There are some more here.
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Date: 2017-01-30 02:24 pm (UTC)I was thinking about this the other day, and I think there are basically three types of Trump admin personalities. Moochers, piggybackers and true believers. The first group are there because they think sucking up to Trump will result in some kind of reward for them (Reince, previously Christie, most of the Trump org folks who have come with him); the piggybackers think they can manipulate Trump and govern by proxy, either for evil (Conway, Pence, Bannon) or maybe slightly less evil (Mattis, Kushner). I don't think there are a lot of true believers who think he really will MAGA, but I'm sure there are a couple.
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Date: 2017-01-30 06:26 am (UTC)The crappiest remake of The Manchurian Candidate.
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Date: 2017-01-30 08:15 pm (UTC)Amen.
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Date: 2017-01-30 03:55 am (UTC)I'll post pictures of the T-shirt when I'm done.
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Date: 2017-01-30 03:52 am (UTC)Was it me you saw? (There were several people I saw with the same message)
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Date: 2017-01-30 03:58 am (UTC)See you at the next protest. *bittersweet smile*
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Date: 2017-01-30 04:14 am (UTC)Yeah, ain't it the truth? I keep seeing people I know, and having friendly conversations, and then thinking "...But I wish we didn't have to meet like this."
(I first heard a friend of my family use that line in a speech, after some creeps defaced the synagogue where he was rabbi, and there was a rally of solidarity. My parents told me the hate crime was an isolated incident. In hindsight, that was bullshit.)
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Date: 2017-01-30 04:20 am (UTC)Thank *you* for your activism. We're in it together for the long haul
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Date: 2017-01-30 05:37 am (UTC)Also, it reminds me of the feeling of unity such demonstrations used to give - people putting aside the petty differences to stand for the big issue that matters.
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Date: 2017-01-30 06:25 am (UTC)I like that idea a lot.
Thank you for the photographs. We weren't in a position to see the prayer rugs.
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Date: 2017-01-30 08:50 am (UTC)And that's an amazing slogan for a t-shirt; I feel I need to say this because I'm totally going to steal it if we have any marches here!
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Date: 2017-01-30 02:19 pm (UTC)For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me --That's the English Standard Version. The New International Version is even more good for opposing measure that shut people out:
I was a stranger and you invited me in
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Date: 2017-01-31 05:07 pm (UTC)Thank you for posting, and thank you for going. There were protests near me, but I didn't know until too late and had other plans I couldn't change without letting people down. I also think I have to figure out how I want to choose my activism so that I don't burn myself out. All of it seems important though.
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Date: 2017-01-31 05:12 pm (UTC)It's like some people volunteer in nursing homes and other people work with small children and other people do campaigns to pick up litter in their neighborhoods and others foster abandoned animals, and others do pro bono legal work--etc.
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